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September 23rd, 2006

Anousheh Ansari, the founder of the X Prize and the fourth space tourist to the International Space Station, now has a blog:It is about 11:30 GMT here on ISS. It looks like my first entry from space...

Doctors are baffled by the strange case of Sarita Bista, a 12 year-old Nepalese girl who has been emitting transparent solid objects (like glass pieces) from her forehead:According to family sources,...

Anthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institue and colleagues discovered a near-complete fossilized remain of a 3.3 million yea old human-like child, named the Dikka girl:The find cons...

MAKE: Blog has a fantastic review of steam-powered bicycles. This one above is a 1896 Geneva steam bicycle:This authentically restored bicycle, manufactured by the Geneva Bicycle and Steam Carriage Co. in...

If you're into haute couture, then you already know that London Fashion Week had just happened. What I respect about fashion designers is their ability to have beautiful women dress up in fantastic, cutting ed...

The Cassini spacecraft discovered a new ring circling Saturn (marked with the plus sign):It appears to be composed of material blasted off the surface of two saturnian moons by meteoroid impacts.While it's...

Photo: Andrea ComasFrom the website:Designer Francis Montesinos kisses a model displaying one of his outfits during the Spring/Summer 2006-07 Pasarela Cibeles fashion show in Madrid September 18, 2006.*/em...

Marvin Richardson, a strawberry farmer, is running for governor of Idaho and he's got the perfect gimmick: Thus, Marvin Richardson, an Emmett strawberry farmer, has legally changed his middle name to...